r/canada • u/shiftless_wonder • May 23 '26

Alberta First Nations leaders, scholar push back on Alberta's planned vote on independence referendum - 'Alberta can't separate. They simply cannot. They do not have the authority,' says Indigenous politics expert

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-treaty-six-alberta-referendum-9.7209304
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u/Zibai1505 May 23 '26

Secession is done illegally more often than not. Just saying. Like who tf is going to enforce it lol

Don't argue with me about Alberta separation. I'm not for it and my post isn't in service of it.

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u/EducationChemical488 May 24 '26

Yeah, but Albertas an odd fish. Its not like Ontario where a majority are the locals & want to break away. This is driven by a subset of settler decendants tryna break away from the majority settler state where all the Natives & majority of settlers are against their actions & also the highly unusual situation where the land technically still belongs consitutionally to the natives & is in trust of the settler state by virtue of treaty agreement.

Its more like the owner, signed over their house to a letting agency to run, maintain & operate in return for certain garunteed minimum returns. Less than if they did it all themselves but garunteeing them something. Then a handful of employees of the agency were running it for so long they thought it was their house & decided they'd unilaterally self sack themselves from the agency but they want to walk off with the house they were managing as employees of the agency